I have a mind boggling question?

BoardsUser836

Not sure if this is the right place to post to as it is both spiritual and science but here goes:

Do you think that when we die, we literally get reborn into the past again, but have no memory who we were before. like if i die in 2080 and time is non-existent after i die, what would be the odds I end up getting reborn into 1983 again AS MYSELF, because I have existed before, however I won't remember anything and perhaps things play out slightly differently each time.

I hope someone gets what I mean?

It sure beats being a ghost/not existing at all!

Oryx

Interesting concept. It would give the past lives regressionists much more mileage. And I suppose if we only perceive time because we are part of it, theres no reason why (if you assume we do get reborn) we can't just pop back up at any time. You need a physicist to answer you really though. And theres also the HUGE leap of assuming we do come back as 'us' or at all.

MrMojoRisin

Yeah, you'd be veering towards the subjects of reincarnation and past lives with this. Neither have ever been proven. In fact, most of the stories related to the above have been disproved more often than they were proven, if at all.

So we can only speculate really... I once read that time isn't as linear as we think, or even at all. As in, there's no such such thing as, "Oh, this is 2011 and 69 years from now, it'll be 2080." It was suggested that the way in which time is ordered is just an illusion - well, a man-made illusion - and that the only aspect of time we can really hold on to is now, or the present. The ancient Egyptians were the first people known to divide the week into days and the year as well. Hours were counted much later. I don't think it was until the 19th century when clocks started counting minutes, eventually followed by seconds.

Obviously, that time-not-being-linear thing is only a theory, but it might be a useful reference point when you hear about stories about someone seeing or experiencing something before it actually happens, i.e. premonitions. But, again, premonitions are hotly contested as well.

However, in a sort of similar vein, I know that there still isn't any definitive explanation for the experience of deja-vu - there hasn't yet been a specific region of the brain to which scientists can attribute deja-vu. So that's one thing.

Food for thought anyway.

KNOM

There are lots of theories out there about time not being linear. Pick who you want to read and go from there. Stephen Hawking has gotten into some of that and so had Richard Bach. Interestingly enough regarding this, when I met my wife, we both knew we had been together before in another life and we both knew this time was going to be the last so we are making the most of it.

lolo62

great question

i think its all just so beyond our intellectual comprehensive ability that i get a headache when i try to work it out!

something about your post resonated with me though...for me its all about oneness

if you just look at it from a purely scientific prospective...when i die i will be buried in the ground and will disintegrate and become part of the soil that someone in the 'future' will grow carrots in...they will eat those carrots etc etc so what does that mean for the time span of my physical existance?

as for soul....im still on the rollercoaster of figuring that out but there are moments where i feel eternal and wonder where ive been/going but i dont 'know' for sure as of yet...
i do believe that i chose to be here now living this life and learning these lessons so i dont think ive been here before in this setting....

parrallel universes might be more what you're talking about? my brain turns to mush with that!